Poor Gerdie.

by Salutations

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< 'Forrest.' by Salutations

Poor Gerdie.

I met a girl in Slower Lower
Her name is Gerdie you don't know her
She went fishin' everyday
She caught a fish in Chesapeake bay
She took the fish home to cook
Everyone gave her a strange look
The fish was covered in red spots
Gerdie said what cute polka dots
Gerdie didn't know
Gerdie didn't see
She died of being poisoned
In the summer of Eighty Three
Poor Gerdie didn't know
About the toxic waste below
The algae in the bay
She'd been fishin' everyday
Hypoxic waters, Overharvest
As far as obstacles
The Pollution's the hardest.
Poor Gerdie Didn't know.
Now she's gone.
She'll never see the Marine Dead Zones.
And everyone just moves on.
> 'Get Ready.' by Salutations

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Sep 20th 2007
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bay human nature narrative political
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I am not a poet. However, I wanted to try and write about something I felt was important and one of those things is the Chesapeake bay. If you don't live in or around the Maryland area you probably don't know what this is. It's the largest Estuary in the U.S. It's supposed to be this really beautiful place and have all this great seafood production and be good for the economy and well it was, until everyone stopped giving a shit about it and dumping all their toxic waste and oil and trash into it. I hate turning on the news and seeing baby animals covered in oil and trash because no one cares about it. It's sickening that you can't go fishing like ANYWHERE in Maryland without getting a disease infested fish in your bucket.

idk. You might think it's kinda gay. And I know I suck at rhyming shit but, I thought it was important.

P.S. SLOWER LOWER LOLOLOLOLOL. That is the eastern shore. Where I live. The north of maryland calls us, the slower lower. Oh good times.

Comments

Jon Hicken Says:

That's not bad, I kinda liked it.

Captain Basch Says:

No it's not bad at all. You did really well with the rhyming. I can't write anything anymore. I used to be really good at poems and stories D: and yeah you touched on something important but you know nothing is going to happen which is the saddest thing ):